PoliFact | Ben Carson: Many prisoners go straight, e out gay

Contents:

• I THOUGHT BEG GAY WAS A S UNTIL I SAW MY FRIEND SUFFER  PRISON
• [WATCH] UNSEEN FOOTAGE OF KG VON CLAIMG HE’S GAY TO BE PLACED PRISON PROTECTIVE CTODY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• MANY PRISON MAT ARE 'GAY FOR THE STAY'
• GAY MAT TIE THE KNOT SI CYPS PRISON
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON

I THOUGHT BEG GAY WAS A S UNTIL I SAW MY FRIEND SUFFER  PRISON

More than 78 percent intified themselv as heterosexual, and 8 percent intified themselv as homosexual; slightly more than 13 percent intified themselv as bisexual. The maximum-secury un had more self-intified homosexuals and bisexuals than the other two stutns. The study did not fd an elevated rate of nsensual homosexual activy by the mat pared to the amount which they engaged prr to rceratn.

One-fourth of the prison sample dited they had engaged some form of nsensual homosexual activy while rcerated; 18 percent had engaged homosexual activy prr to rceratn. The -prison homosexual activy found this study was not as high as that reported by other studi.

Homosexualy is a choice, jt look at the prisons, Republin nrosurgeon Ben Carson said on CNN. He also argued that homosexualy is a choice, rather than blogil.

[WATCH] UNSEEN FOOTAGE OF KG VON CLAIMG HE’S GAY TO BE PLACED PRISON PROTECTIVE CTODY

"Bee a lot of people who go to prison go to prison straight -- and when they e out, they're gay. We’ll jump to the pot here: There is no nclive evince to support Carson’s claim that "a lot of people" make a swch om heterosexual to homosexual while prison.

Further, the medil muny tends to nclu that homosexualy is not a matter of choice -- notably the Amerin Psychologil Associatn.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Of those 24, 18 changed om straight to bisexual, three changed om bisexual to straight, and one each changed om bisexual to gay, gay to bisexual, and gay to straight. It’s possible that people go to prison unaware of their sexualy, and then once they are exposed to homosexual behavr as an mate, they realize that they are gay or bisexual, Helen Eigenberg, who also studi prison sexualy as a profsor at the Universy of Tennsee at Chattanooga, said an terview wh PoliFact. They might thk that jt bee they played a role a homosexual act, they are now gay, which is not necsarily te.

Greg Herek, a psychology profsor at the Universy of California Davis who studi sexual orientatn, poted to a natnally reprentative study that shows the vast majory of gay men and women do not perceive their sexual orientatn as a rult of choice.

People n change their behavr -- such as engagg homosexual behavr prison -- but that do not equate to a change orientatn, Bailey, the Northwtern rearcher, told PoliFact.

MANY PRISON MAT ARE 'GAY FOR THE STAY'

Carson said, "A lot of people who go to prison straight, and when they e out they’re gay. Rpected scientists nsir settled that homosexualy is not a matter of choice.

CNN, "Ben Carson: Prisons prove beg gay is a choice, " March 4, 2015.

GAY MAT TIE THE KNOT SI CYPS PRISON

PoliFact, "Tim Pawlenty says scientists are " dispute" over whether beg gay is a choice, " July 13, 2011.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

PoliFact, "Tim Pawlenty says there's no scientific ncln that beg gay is geic, " July 13, 2011.

Washgton Post, "What experts say about Ben Carson’s turng-gay--prison claim, " March 4, 2015. Sexual Rearch and Social Policy, "Demographic, Psychologil, and Social Characteristics of Self-Intified Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults a US Probabily Sample, " September 2010. Prison homosexualy and s effect on post-prison sexual behavr.

THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON

Although there has grown up to a nsirable lerature on sex experienc prison, ltle has been wrten on the post-prison behavral patterns of those who, voluntarily or voluntarily, bee iated to homosexualy while rcerated. 42) suggts that sexual experienc prison may have permanent effects on the liv of some of the participants: "Can such men return to nventnal heterosexual liv after release, or has the experience of beg forced to acts of passive homosexualy been so trmatic as to preclu the rumptn of sexual relatns wh members of the oppose sex?

" In a search for an answer to his qutn, the prent paper studi ex-prisoners whose iatn to homosexualy occurred durg prison.

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